Beside well-known Vietnamese restaurants such as Quan Bui, Cuc Gach Quan and Secret Garden, you actually have other places that also deserve to be as known: The Fish Sauce on the top floor on 41 Le Duan in district 1. It is a pretty nice restaurant with high ceiling and big plate-glass windows that give […]

In Shao-Chen Lin’s new sketchbook, On-the-spot Sketching at Cafes in Saigon, Vietnam, the southern metropolis is defined by its most charming aspect: a robust coffee culture that permeates every corner of the city, from weathered downtown apartments to hidden hẻms in the outskirts of District 3. There’s a special selection of Vietnamese words that, over time, have […]

They say art is everywhere. This artist/fanboy has proved it. Saigon streets have always been a paradise of cool typographies. Maxk Nguyen, a Ho Chi Minh City-based artist, saw a cool sign one day at a cheap sidewalk eatery selling various types of boiled eggs, including the embryo balut (which is not for the faint […]

Your favorites may not make the cut, but rest assured that Ha Long Bay and Sa Pa will be there. Rough Guides, one of the most respected travel guides, has just released the top 10 most beautiful places in Vietnam, as voted by its readers. There will be some surprises and possibly a few snubs. […]

Luxury resorts, hotels and cruise ships are leading choices of Hollywood stars, billionaires and State leaders when they spend holidays in Vietnam. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend (now wife) Priscilla Chan visited Ha Long Bay and Sapa in December 2011. They hired kayak to discover Ha Long Bay by themselves and […]